Background pattern 9 (greyscale) #213
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
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Orange Striped Background Pattern #909
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background@2X #498
Noise CC 0Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
Polonez Pattern@2X #335
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Overlapping planks 3 #2573
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Cells #1285
Paper CC 0Zero CC tileable hard cover cells, skin like, book texture. 4K, Scanned and made by me CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Tileable Wood #655
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Wood Stripe Pattern #999
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A brown seamless wood texture in a form of stripe pattern. The result has turned out pretty well, in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
Vintage pattern #2296
Brown CC 0Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Floral divider 2 #1924
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'A Guide to the Guildhall of the City of London', John Baddeley, 1898.
Source Firkin
PS Neutral #1134
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
Inspiration Geometry #1175
Unknow CC BY-SA 3.0This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
3D Wood #1475
Wood CC 0Basket Fibers, Basket Texture, Braid Background style CC0 texture.
Source 1A-Photoshop
Escheresque #777
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Cubes as far as your eyes can see. You know, because they tile.
Source Jan Meeus
Light Toast #759
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
Light Paper Fibers@2X #836
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
Criss-cross pattern #1895
Dark CC 0A criss-cross pattern similar to one I saw mown into a sports field.
Source Firkin
Rebel@2X #830
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Floral divider 7 #1747
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Stitched Wool@2X #844
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Type #276
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Wave Grind #1132
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Bright Multicolored Floral Background@2X #560
Noise CC 0Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ